Chen Xin
Chen Xin
Chen Xin's recent works use easel painting and installation to explore the yearning and lack of free will, emotion, and experience under the domination of instrumental rationality in the digital era.
The easel paintings present a series of sensual and romantic works. Such exploration comes from the fact that the current amplification of instrumental rationality has distanced us from our emotions, and the environment for personal emotional expression has been transformed. Nowadays, netizens’ emotion-centered experiences seem insignificant; simultaneously, it is absurdly amplified. Meanwhile, data erases human's free will, lets inner emotions be recycled many times in repression.
The metaphorical intervention of the plant image reflects the shackles of reason, which also symbolizes each individual. The gesture and breath of the plants bring the power of growth, resist the fragmented life and gain the extension of time; They never hide, and their confident posture inspires us to face the current situation and women's issues.
Installations continues to take on the "identity" of "Future Network Archeologist," looking back to sort out the meaning of network data archeology. She uses non-traditional materials (such as galvanized tie wire, black annealed wire, rubber foam sponge tube, etc.) to consider the relationship between the network's closure and free will, discursive space, and emotion.
The easel paintings present a series of sensual and romantic works. Such exploration comes from the fact that the current amplification of instrumental rationality has distanced us from our emotions, and the environment for personal emotional expression has been transformed. Nowadays, netizens’ emotion-centered experiences seem insignificant; simultaneously, it is absurdly amplified. Meanwhile, data erases human's free will, lets inner emotions be recycled many times in repression.
The metaphorical intervention of the plant image reflects the shackles of reason, which also symbolizes each individual. The gesture and breath of the plants bring the power of growth, resist the fragmented life and gain the extension of time; They never hide, and their confident posture inspires us to face the current situation and women's issues.
Installations continues to take on the "identity" of "Future Network Archeologist," looking back to sort out the meaning of network data archeology. She uses non-traditional materials (such as galvanized tie wire, black annealed wire, rubber foam sponge tube, etc.) to consider the relationship between the network's closure and free will, discursive space, and emotion.
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